LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7, 7 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At His Majesty's Theatre. Stratford, commencing on .Monday next, there will ho a change of programme three times weekly.

The total 'rainfall registered - at.

Stratford for last month was 5.08 inches, the maximum being J. 42 inches on the .'list inst. Rain was registered

on nine days

During Lieutenant Gray's temporary absence, applicants for service with the Expeditionary Force may obtain enrolment forms from Captain W>. ;J. Reeve, at the. Courthouse, opposite the Defence Office.

A conference of buyers and directors of the Stratford Dairv Factory «'as held at the County Hotel yesterday, about eight buyers when the Company decided to season's output through Messrs .Mill* and Sparrow, of London.

AiT innovation was. introduced v at a. late farewell to a couple of Noithern troopers departing lor'Tientlmm, wHfr weie kissed "good-bye" by all the young,ladies present at■ the-'function.' 'Hie'universal adoption of this practice (Isug'gests the Mongonui correspondent of the Auckland'Star) would no doubt greatly stimulate recruiting, and n.t-| 'H'otie \oung ladies 'might t;».!ce the! hint! j ■ ■"■ ! •' " '•■ !; -' ■

. Local owners of motor cars for .hire state that if the proposed . increase! sof •Id per gallon on motor spirits holds, it is inevitable that there must be a rise in the fares thrughmit New Zealand. ~ A : icar proprietor in | Stratford stated yejsterday that whatever the ii|erease: is, it must he passed on to the public.. The: ordinary present- runabout fare in ' the Borough is Is' per passenger per mile.'but' if the > new scale of charges comes,' into being Is ,'kl.will he charged. ; Most of the cars available for hire'in the' streets consuine.about a gallon of petrol for every fifteen to eighteen miles travelled', and lthe lighter ears can mil anything between eighteen to twenty-five miles oil a gallon, hut there is only one of the latter class for hire in Stratford.

Apropos oi' cerebro spinal meningitis J fever, oi" which so much has recently ■ been heard, it is instructive to turn to a leaflet on the subject issued by the Health Department, in which the symptoms are set forth, with advice as to precautions advisable to cheek , any possible spread of the disease.. It is therein set oi/t that an attack ai\ the trouble is usually indicated at the, outset by shivering* intense dizziness or headache, anad persistent vomiting on the part of the patient, followed by delirium, alternating with sleepiness oi- stupor. The spread of the disease by direct infection or contact is much more restricted than in a trouble like smallpox, is is stated, but a healthy person may carry the coccus of the disease, and he himself unaffected, but many transmit it to others of less robust health. That method of spreading the disease is stated to be "especially likely to happen when there is intimate contact such as occurs in the fondling of children, or in kissing."! Consequently the exigencies of the; times demand the subordination of such social and family amenities as the careless kiss and the scrumptious squeeze to the spartan virtues embodied in the "glassy stare" and the "frozen face." The native liongi-

hongi (rub noses) salutation is a custom that is looked on with special suspicion at the moment by medical men.

The latest matching song, that has quite supplanted "Tipperary," runs:Mary had it little lamh, its fleece was white as snow, < And every where that Mary wont the

lamb was sure to !>;o. Hurrah for Mary! Hurrah' for thr

lamb! Hurrah for the teacher who didn't care a—little bit!